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Single-use P2 threads. P2 is an awesome theme for threaded conversations that stand the test of time. Avoid long, drawn out email discussions with friends by pointing everyone to a P2 thread.

A year ago you wrote… Emails of what you wrote in the past, a la Timehop.

Lock one or more dashboard widgets in place for everyone. The WordPress dashboard offers infinite customization. Sometimes you want to make sure a widget (e.g. site announcements) appears in the same place for everyone though.

Document Feedback is a new WordPress plugin to close the loop between documentation writers and readers.

By default, it appends a simple prompt to the bottom of every Page:

If a reader responds to the prompt, they’re given a follow-up question to clarify their response. Readers must be logged in for the prompt to show up.

Comments are emailed to the post author and summarized in a post meta box:

Many thanks to Mario Peshev for his random hacks of kindness. I started this plugin a year ago and left it half-finished on Github. Then Mario comes along, submits a couple very substantial pull requests, and kicks me in the pants to release it.

There’s no standard conventions around shipping documentation with plugins, and it would be nice if there was. One idea: include a /docs/ folder with text files in markdown. Those documents would automatically show up in your wporg plugin profile.

P2 Resolved Posts is a nifty plugin we use at Automattic, in conjunction with the stellar P2 theme, to help better ensure decisions aren’t left hanging and things get done. This third release of the plugin allows you to register your own custom post states.

For instance, if I wanted to have a post “Waiting Review” before it was marked unresolved, I could add something like the following to my theme’s functions.php:

The third argument is the position of the state. It can be ‘first’ or ‘last’, or ‘before’ => ‘state’ or ‘after’ => ‘state’.

Alternatively, you can remove a state if you no longer find it useful.

Getting this feature out the door required a fair amount of refactoring. It’s been running stable on WordPress.com for a couple of weeks — the most awesome way to beta test. Feel free to post any feedback, issues, feature requests, etc. in the WordPress.org forums. You can also fork the plugin on Github.

Well, the big ones at least. I recently “discovered” you can create arbitrary rooms on Freenode. Given how much I love Automattic’s IRC backchannels, I decided to create a few rooms for the plugins I work on on the off-chance they make it easier to answer quick questions, discuss feature requests, etc.

If you like #editflow, #coauthorsplus, #adcodemanager, or #supportflow, feel free to join me.

Introducing Post Forking for WordPress. Fun project by Ben Balter to bring Github-style content collaboration to WordPress. It’s a simple v0.1 right now in the hopes of getting people using and contributing to it.